Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Sverige/200810

October 2 Seminar

Wikimedia Sverige was asked to give a seminar of the basics of Wikimedia and Wikipedia at the University of Karlstad. It was co-arranged with Karlstad University Library.

October 6 Kunskapsdagarna (The Knowledge days)

This day was arranged by Nationalencyklopedin (think Swedish Encyclopedia Britannica) to give out the Knowledge prize. We were not nominated but at least we were invited to participate which in a way is a big recognition.

Read more (Swedish): http://www.kunskapspriset.se/

October 21-22 Internetdagarna (The Internet days)

For the second year we attended the Internet days. Our attending fee was sponsored by IIS (again), the organization controlling the .se domain. They are also the main sponsor for Wikipedia Academy (see below). We got 5 new members and made some very good connections. Also it was a good event to get more of our members involved with the daily work.

October 24-26 FSCONS

We were one of the organisers of Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit this year, responsible for the track Open Content. Other tracks were Open Source and Open Culture and our co-organisers were FSFE and Creative Commons. This was a very good place for us to make important connections within the movement. Frank Schulenberg and Lars Aronsson both gave great talks. Besides all that we got 5 new members this conference too.

Lars paper is available here (English): http://aronsson.se/greatchanges.pdf

COMING UP:Wikipedia Academy

November 12-13 is the first Wikipedia Academy in Sweden, held in Lund at Lund University Libraries.

Read more (Swedish): http://www.lub.lu.se/wikipediaacademy/